Attention Select Your Favorite Brown Tone for Sawcut Bone!!

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Pàdruig said:
I wish I still had my Hemlock 66 so that I could photograph it properly
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I wish you did, too. You are one of the best photographers on here. So far, I hear people talking about how cool hemlock looks, but all the pictures are, well, not that interesting looking (to me, at least). Maybe that's my taste being different than the hemlock crowd, maybe that's just pictures that aren't really capturing its full glory.

I'm voting for copperhead as the one I like best of the two likeliest winners. If hemlock wins I'll buy it, and hope to be surprised and delighted when it comes out of the tube.

-Tyson
 
I've just read all 24 pages of posts. Phew!

I've been in the losing camp from the onset (wood, then smooth bone, blue color), but even having a vote is what makes these BF forum knives so cool.

i was sold early on with Hemlock; unique, bold color below the surface. But now I worry that the sawcut surface will be so dark that it would look black. Perhaps its the lighting or different in person, but i was hoping for a brighter handle.

For now i will have to switch my vote to copperhead. Its a known outcome, which is pretty amazing despite not being smooth, beveled blue bone.
 
The reason hemlock green (I feel like a lunatic using that term to suggest a brown color) is rare is not because it is super popular!

This thread makes me feel like I am in bizarro land, and unless I have some weird color vision problem I am not aware of, I am not sure mentally and emotionally I can get over red/green being chosen as the winning brown color.

There is still time for the voters to choose a brown color in the brown color poll, but I believe the madness of the crowd may have swept away all hope.
 
Tyson A Wright said:
I wish you did, too. You are one of the best photographers on here. So far, I hear people talking about how cool hemlock looks, but all the pictures are, well, not that interesting looking (to me, at least). Maybe that's my taste being different than the hemlock crowd, maybe that's just pictures that aren't really capturing its full glory.

I'm voting for copperhead as the one I like best of the two likeliest winners. If hemlock wins I'll buy it, and hope to be surprised and delighted when it comes out of the tube.

-Tyson
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These posts all start to blur together after 25 pages but I feel like more than one person has said “hemlock is amazing, I wish I still had mine so I could show you.” It makes me wonder if it was so amazing why’d they let it go?

I’m kinda kidding, but kinda wondering.
 
I keep trying to remind myself I love the last black 86 Forum Knife, I’ll love this one too.
Rose and Thistle Custom said:
Actually that's not what he said. He said it WOULD work.
"He's agreed that Hemlock will work with Sawcut, and he will do it for us,"
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Yes, how dare he twist Charlie’s words so, reconjugating “to warn”! The nerve!

I pulled my vote from copperhead to sepia at lunch time, and it closed the gap a bit. I dunno why it didn’t occur to me earlier, I’m gonna throw my dead weight on hemlock and suffocate it!

Edit: OMG, it’s working already!😃
 
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Thanks for the update Charlie. Glad to hear that we’ll get a pronounced sawcut. The colors going to be fantastic no matter which is chosen, really going to be an incredible knife.
 
Leslie Tomville said:
I would prefer not to engage in an experiment. Especially one that I have to pay for.
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You started gambling at the very beginning of this venture, maybe you should have gotten out a long time ago but that’s not the case. You can’t be sure the copperhead color will be the same as pictures we’ve seen, heck, even knives from different years in copperhead look different as is shown in the examples posted. It’s all a gamble!
 
BDubbs said:
i really like this color copperhead, may be too light for some…
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I like it too, but as many have pointed out, in sawcut it looks so much better with more variation near the bolster. And it tends to be much darker in the sawcut areas of the examples I've seen. For these same reasons hemlock could be great too, but theres just no examples to be seen. I feel like there will be more of the color variation/contrast with copperhead, but it's just a guessing game.
 
Lifted some pictures from the internet, hope no one minds.

Nice of bill to let us know that the sawcut part will be dark.
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Well, yeah. So its going to be dark at the sawcut just like its dark at the jigging, who’d a thunk it….


guess what naysayers, so does the copperhead

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Sacto said:
These posts all start to blur together after 25 pages but I feel like more than one person has said “hemlock is amazing, I wish I still had mine so I could show you.” It makes me wonder if it was so amazing why’d they let it go?

I’m kinda kidding, but kinda wondering.
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I had 66s in Hemlock Green and Dark Chestnut. The hemlock was very nice, but I liked the chestnut better, so I kept that one. I wish I had the hemlock today only for the sake of this discussion, but otherwise am happy with my choice.
I have no doubt this knife will be great in Hemlock (it would have been my first choice, hands down, if red had won the first poll), but Copperhead will (probably) be better. I guess I prefer my browns on the yellow side.
 
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Just for the heck of it , I would like to show you what colors are in the new 83 Dark Brewed looks like in the Sunlight . It sure surprised me . Pardon the dirt and pocket lint on it . I carried it today .


This is the color it was today in the shade .

I make no conclusion . Just thought you should see it too .
Edited to add : I voted for Hemlock and have not changed it .
Harry
 
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Old Engineer said:
Just for the heck of it , I would like to show you what colors are in the new 83 Dark Brewed looks like in the Sunlight . It sure surprised me . Pardon the dirt and pocket lint on it . I carried it today .


This is the color it was today in the shade .

I make no conclusion . Just thought you should see it too .

Harry
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Thank you for that. After seeing that color it definitely climbs up above Copperhead for me, but I still prefer the Hemlock option. But Dark Brewed is officially my second choice now.
 
Leslie Tomville said:
Pàdruig Pàdruig , if we roll craps will you reimburse the rest of us adventurous gamblers?

Just a joke.

But seriously, a Copperhead Sawcut Barlow is not a common pedestrian item. I have been trying to get a Barlow in the family of Antique/Chestnut, Tan, Copperhead, or Saddle Brown for ages. They are almost impossible to find and cost a fortune when you do. They are all awesome, unique, and rare. Not many of us have one or will ever be able to get one. I am advocating for Copperhead over the others only because it is the sole remaining contender in the family. Each one of those colors is special. It’s not like we can run to the local hardware store and buy one of these exquisite gems. If that was the case, I would be more than happy to join you on your adventure without caring one bit if it was a whiff. However, we only have one shot this year. There is no guarantee that GEC will even do this again. Plus it is a unique Granddad Barlow so it will be a rarity regardless of the color.

Even though you feel like you have a pretty good idea of what the knife will look like, I would prefer not to engage in an experiment. Especially one that I have to pay for.

But, if we end up with Hemlock, I will certainly buy one and hope like hell that some colors peek through the darkness. I would hate to end up with a monotone knife that looks like Dark Blackish Brown Delrin after coming so close to a great knife.
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I am comfortable with the gamble because I can’t foresee any probability that I will be displeased with - whatever is chosen will be a winner.

Obviously, that is my personal thoughts on the matter and I can’t expect others to feel the same. I understand that past examples of anything GEC, particularly Barlows, are very difficult to acquire but I will say that Copperhead or dyes similar to it are featured here somewhat frequently and to me, as a result, it has simply lost whatever “new car” luster it might have had.

Tyson A Wright said:
I wish you did, too. You are one of the best photographers on here. So far, I hear people talking about how cool hemlock looks, but all the pictures are, well, not that interesting looking (to me, at least). Maybe that's my taste being different than the hemlock crowd, maybe that's just pictures that aren't really capturing its full glory.

I'm voting for copperhead as the one I like best of the two likeliest winners. If hemlock wins I'll buy it, and hope to be surprised and delighted when it comes out of the tube.

-Tyson
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I appreciate the compliments, my friend, though I am simply an amateur at best. Knowing how things went in the previous thread, I’ve become aware that we all can see rather different things in pictures - it all comes down to individual perceptions.

Sacto said:
These posts all start to blur together after 25 pages but I feel like more than one person has said “hemlock is amazing, I wish I still had mine so I could show you.” It makes me wonder if it was so amazing why’d they let it go?

I’m kinda kidding, but kinda wondering.
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I can answer that easily enough on my part. I did not have my Hemlock 66 long before a kind member here remembered that I had missed out on the Blood Red versions and reached out to offer a trade. It’s no secret at this point that Blood Red ranks up there as one of my favorites.
 
Some will have you think Hemlock is a gamble (just like they did with red) and that Copperhead is a safe, reliable choice and then they post a picture of a lovely Copperhead TC. Like all GEC runs, sometimes the color is awesome, sometime just ok. Case in point, Copperhead 12s… not bad but nothing as nice as the color on the TCs (not my photo):

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